From July 13 in the United States for the first time in 15 years will resume executions of criminals convicted at the Federal level. About it reports Associated Press with reference to sources in correctional institutions.
In particular, lethal injection will be introduced the two prisoners in Indiana accused of the murder of children. To visit the penalty will allow the families of criminals, and relatives of their victims. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, they will be obliged to wear medical masks.
The last time capital punishment in the United States at the Federal level, operate in 2003. Since then, the country had an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty, because the rules injected were not agreed. Despite the fact that such punishment has not been used by the Federal authorities, at the regional level the highest measure of a sentence still used.
Earlier it was reported that under the threat of death was the police officer who accidentally killed a black American. Latest arrested because he slept drunk in the Parking lot. During the arrest, he resisted: he snatched one of the police officers Taser and fired it. The militiaman opened fire from his service weapon and struck the fleeing African Americans mortally wounded.
